61. Honorary Degree Ceremony For Professor Howard S. Becker the Internet – Howie’s home page – one of the things that immediately strike you Your great contribution to the sociology of art and culture, then, http://www.eur.nl/diesnatalis/2004/honorary

@import url(http://www.eur.nl/locals/style.css); Dies Natalis Dies Natalis 2004 Home Dies Natalis ... Photo Impression Honorary Degree Ceremony for professor Howard S. Becker Laudatio by prof. Anton M. Bevers (promotor), Art and Culture Studies Looking at Professor Becker’s home page on the Internet – Howie’s home page – one of the things that immediately strike you is a link to a standard reply form for all students wishing to write a paper on deviant behavior. This is the best evidence that you are most famous as the author of Outsiders (1963). But you have also written a great deal about the tricks of the trade: how to do sociological research and how to write up the results. Educational sociology is another field that held your interest, though meanwhile and right from the start you paid attention to the artist’s profession as well. Your Master-thesis dealt with the role and position of the dance musician (which you happened to be at the time also). With the publication of Art Worlds in 1982 your reputation grew stronger, notably in the widening circle of specialists in the sociology of art and culture. In the tradition of the sociology you put it into practice you find yourself among the most prominent sociologists of the second half of the twentieth century. But no one knows like you do how reputations are made, witness the final chapter ‘Reputations’ in your book Art Worlds . So I will not go more deeply into it here. Everything is worth talking about. Talking about art, some art philosophers will say, has replaced art itself. Art has turned into talking about art. But happily art is still being created and there are other ways to talk about art than does art philosophy. Like the way sociologists talk about art. One of the core principles of your book

62. UT Feature Story -- Studying A Hip Hop Nation: Pop Culture Phenomenon At The Int “sociology is a place from which you can look at these things in relation to one Hip hop has become the most visible voice for black culture, and it’s http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2003/hiphop.html

Quick Links UT Home Current Students Faculty Prospective Students Staff About UT Academics Around Austin Athletics Community Outreach Computing Employment Graduate Studies International Programs Research Support UT Calendars UT Direct UT Directory UT Offices A-Z UT Search UT Site Map UTOPIA UT Directory UT Offices A-Z UT Site Map Calendars ... UT Home [an error occurred while processing this directive] Professor S. Craig Watkins researches interactions between youth, race, media and pop culture. According to Watkins, black youth often have been the unfortunate recipients of a conservative political and social backlash in which the achievements and goals of the civil rights struggle are sometimes thwarted. At the same time that their creative expression is used to market everything from $140 athletic shoes to candy bars and the NBA, they are also cast as the primary source of crime and the erosion of traditional values. Which, in a way, brings one right back to hip hop. The media and the commercial world took a cultural seed from New York and spread it across the nation. Youth of different races and ethnicities are using the common ground of hip hop to interact in a more seamless fashion than their grandparents ever would have envisioned. Mass media and clever marketing have made it a small world after all.

63. School Of Economic And Social Studies of material culture has focussed on the symbolic meanings of ‘things’ – the At UEA I contribute to an introductory sociology course (Understanding http://www.uea.ac.uk/~j024/

School of Economic and Social Studies University of East Anglia Tim Dant Lecturer in Sociology B. Sc. Soc. Sci., CNAA D. Phil., University of York Room 3.22 Arts II Building University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ Tel: +44 1603 593716 email: t.dant@uea.ac.uk Links: Car care papers Publications list Teaching: Consumer Cultures Interpreting Modernity ResDAM After a number of years as a researcher in the fields of social policy and social gerontology, I joined the sociology teaching staff of Manchester Polytechnic in 1990. For a decade I taught social theory, research methods and the sociology of culture before transferring to the University of East Anglia in 2000. I continue to be interested in social gerontology (two of the doctoral students I supervise are studying different aspects of caring for older people) but most of my teaching and research is in the field of sociology, especially social theory and cultural sociology. Material culture In the mid-1990s it occurred to me that we spend much of our lives engaged with things rather than people. These ‘things’ are often closer to us and we have a more intimate relationship them than we do with the people around us – sadly, like most people, I spend more time gazing into computer and television screens than I do into the eyes of my lover! Now these things are not natural, they aren’t just there in the world, they are things that have been designed, produced and distributed through the culture in which I live and they link me to my society. Each object is embedded with the ideas and values of my society, shaping what I do and often what I think or feel. After writing 'Playing with Things: Objects and Subjects in Windsurfing' (

64. Sociology Of Religion: Stark's Age Of Faith Argument And The Secularization Of T and the secularization of things a commentary from sociology of Religion, In this, they showed the shifting ratio between culture and faith. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_3_63/ai_92284225

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles Sociology of Religion Fall 2002 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for ASA News ASEE Prism Academe African American Review ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Stark's age of faith argument and the secularization of things: a commentary Sociology of Religion Fall, 2002 by C. John Sommerville Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Rodney Start has repeatedly attempted to bury secularization. But his latest effort, "Secularization, R.I.P." (Stark 1999) involves some common and serious mistakes. In that article he refutes the idea that medieval Europe can be described as an Age of Faith. He presents much evidence that "lack of religious participation was, if anything, even more widespread in medieval times than now." And since "the only shred of credibility" for secularization theory is the supposed contrast between such an age of faith and our present situation, he thinks that dismissing that Age of Faith makes it impossible to speak confidently of a decline of religion. So, in line with his title, "secularization" would cease to be a live concept. In the course of his argument, Stark makes some other points that need to be addressed. First, he questions the connection so often made between secularization and "modernization," and most especially with science. Second, he notes that secularization theory does not limit itself to a discussion of social or cultural differentiation, but makes explicit claims about belief. Third, he challenges the assumption that secularization is irreversible. And finally, he reminds us that we should not be talking just about Christianity, but about religion generally.

65. Drug And Alcohol Consumption As Functions Of Social Structures: A Cross-Cultural The theory can account for current crosscultural patterns of drug If wetruly want to change things for the better, we first need to develop a http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6254&pc=9

66. Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach -- The Sociology Of Human Sexuality Doing things associated with our particular sexual identity and joking about the The role of culture In this process of developing a sexual identity, http://www.ablongman.com/html/henslintour/henslinchapter/ahead2.html

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUAL IDENTITY The Essentialists and the Social Constructionists When we refer to sexual orientation, two views come into conflict. The essentialist view is that we are born with a sexual orientation. This orientation develops from within us, much like a flower unfolds from a seed or a bulb. Depending on what you plant, you can only get a rose or a hyacinth. A rose does not learn to be a rose, and a hyacinth does not learn to be a hyacinth. So our sexual orientationwhich becomes the center of our sexual identityis inborn. We are born with a sexual desire for people of the opposite sex or for members of our own sex. Our sexual orientation is essential to what we are . We do learn how to express our sexuality according to social expectations; that is, we learn a role what society or some group expects of us because of what we arebut we already are that particular thing. Most sociologists reject this view in favor of the social constructionist view . In this view, represented especially by symbolic interactionists, we construct our sexual identity. We are not born homosexual (having sexual preference for members of one's own sex) or heterosexual (having sexual preference for members of the opposite sex); rather, we learn these sexual orientations. As we learn them, we come to think of ourselves in these terms; that is, we

67. Proper Government - History, Sociology, Economics Of course major things that happen in an individuals life constitute his history 3) The average distance between members of a culture and the distance http://www.ebtx.com/pgv/pgv12.htm

History, Sociology and Economics History H istory is the chronicle of large scale changes made in civilization. What happens to individuals with respect to civilization is called 'news'. Of course major things that happen in an individuals' life constitute his history and minor things his news . This is not the subject here. We can lay out a picture of history as in the above. Here the graph should continue asymtotically in both the left and right directions about a mile given the width of the hu-man phase. As you can guess animals become men by going through a phase known as history and contrary to what you may presently believe, history is a rather brief period lasting for perhaps 50,000 years. That is very brief indeed when compared to the time animals have been around (hundreds of millions of years) and the time man will be around (more hundreds of millions). When I say history ends I don't mean it just up and disappears. It is gradually replaced by 'news'. Things happen but it doesn't make much difference globally or in the long run. We get to live out our lives in a special period. Life as it will be 100,000 years from now will not be substantially different than life as it will be 2 billion years from now.

68. Mills Mills appeared at the height of the professionalizing of sociology and his 5George Kubler, The Shape of Time Remarks on the History of things (New http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/hbecker/mills.html

69. Anthroology Programme - School Of Sociology And Anthropology - University Of Can Information about Anthropology in the School of sociology and Anthropology. Sociocultural anthropology covers almost any aspect of human social http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/anth/anthprogramme.shtml

UC Home Courses Departments Library ... Search Anthropology Programme What is anthropology? Anthropology at Canterbury Although well established in other universities in New Zealand and throughout the world, anthropology is a new discipline at Canterbury. The first introductory course in anthropology at Canterbury was taught in 1998 by staff on campus who had anthropology training. A full under- and post-graduate programme in anthropology was approved in July 2000, and undergraduate courses are now offered at all three undergraduate levels. New staff are being appointed, and an Honours programme in anthropology was introduced in 2003. With there being no separate department of anthropology, courses are organised and administered from within the School of Sociology and Anthropology. Studying anthropology Students enrolled in anthropology courses can expect to learn about culture and society through a study of the wide variety of ways in which people around the world live, but also through an appreciation of what humans have in common and of the fundamentals on which social life is based. It is characteristic of anthropology to compare ways of life from different societies and to try and make generalisations about the nature of human social life and culture. In this sense it adds to our knowledge of what it means to be human, and promotes cross-cultural awareness and self-understanding.

70. Sociology Some things in the world are changing fast science, technology, sociology atKeele explores the impact of social change on these lifecourse events and http://www.keele.ac.uk/undergraduate/prospectus/2005/sociology.htm

Your browser does not support JavaScript - please use text only version text only version Back to Course List Entry Requirements for Courses ... Department Web Page The Department: Teaching quality rated excellent (22 out of 24); research rating international excellence standard (5) The Course Offers: Options focusing on student interests and links to other principal subjects: health, identity, culture, politics, globalisation Options focusing on key research strengths: youth and childhood, changing families, belief systems, consumer culture, conspiracy theory Subject-specific transferable skills that can be useful in employment such as research, statistical analysis and information technology Development of personal and interpersonal skills to aid learning and understand society such as group work, presentations and independent research approximate intake in 2005: 100 Dual Honours Combinations Entry Requirements Course Leaflet See also Social Work Study Abroad Available So at the beginning of the 21st-century we live in a global society shaped by the exchange of goods, information and ideas in which answers to social problems are far from obvious. It is an exciting time to be a sociologist. This sense of excitement is reflected in our curriculum which will allow you to think critically and imaginatively about human experience and action, including your own. As well as core modules you will be able to explore these ideas through option modules. Recently, these have covered:

71. Power (sociology) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia To control others, one must have control over things that they desire or need, For the powerful, their culture seems obvious; for the powerless, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(sociology)

Power (sociology) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sociologists usually define power as the ability to impose one's will on others, even if those others resist in some way. "By power is meant that opportunity existing within a social relationship which permits one to carry out one's own will even against resistance and regardless of the basis on which this opportunity rests." Max Weber Basic Concepts in Sociology The imposition need not involve coercion (force or threat of force). Thus "power" in the sociological sense subsumes both physical power and political power , including many of the types listed at power . In some ways it more closely resembles what everyday English-speakers call "influence". More generally, one could define "power" as the more or less unilateral ability (real or perceived) or potential to bring about significant change , usually in people’s lives , through the actions of oneself or of others. The exercise of power seems endemic to humans as social and gregarious beings. Contents Analysis and operation of power Types and sources of power Theories of power Marxism ... edit Analysis and operation of power Power manifests itself in a relational manner: one cannot meaningfully say that a particular social actor "has power" without also specifying the other parties to the social relationship.

72. Sociology First things, April 2001 Avery Cardinal Dulles presents a brief compass which What happened next is a sign of where our culture s attitudes about http://www.leaderu.com/menus/sociology.html

Academics Humanities Social Sciences Sciences Theology ... Faculty Offices Departments Current Issues Publications Conferences/Events Apologetics ... What's New Special Interest Past Features Other Sites Help LU About LU ... Feedback Navigation Site Map Site Index Advanced Search Browsing Help ... LU Home LU Updates Receive LU-Announce Telling the Truth at the speed of life. (September 20, 2005) Sociology 5 Lies the Church Tells Women 5 of the lies some churches tell women, taken from J. Lee Grady's book '10 Lies the Church Tells Women.' Includes a woman's place in the family, in the church, in the workplace and the world. Abortion: A Failure to Communicate First Things, April 1998 Swope concludes, "If pro-lifers are willing to reframe the debate in a way that affected women can better understand..the movement can regain the moral high ground...and begin to reach successfully the very women who most need the pro-life message." Academic Icon Exposed: But the academy rushes to her defense Gene Edward Veith, World Magazine When a Stanford grad student exposed the myths associated with the 1992 Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu's life story, he encourntered an academic cadre whose members villified the truthteller. Multiculturalists said, "Nevermind the facts." Beating the Bearhug: The Hard Work Of Charitable Choice Is Just Beginning Marvin Olasky Olasky, editor of World magazine, personal advisor of George W. Bush and originator of the "compassionate conservatism" concept, gives prescriptions for faith-based poverty-fighting groups on their interaction with government.

73. PopMatters The lack of attention to consumption on the part of American sociology is remarkable We make things, Simmel holds, to better understand who we are; http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/p/point-of-purchase.shtml

BOOKS archive - A B C D ... front page POINT OF PURCHASE: HOW SHOPPING CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE by Sharon Zukin Routledge March 2005, 336 pages, $18.95 (US) by Vince Carducci e-mail this article print this article comment on this article A Consumer's Republic I shop therefore I am. The lack of attention to consumption on the part of American sociology is remarkable given its central role in our society. The Encyclopedia of Sociology , last updated in 2000, doesn't even have entries for consumerism, consumer society or consumption. And efforts to create a special interest group on the subject within the American Sociological Association stalled a couple of years back. (Although the group maintains a loose affiliation under the banner Consumers, Commodities and Consumption .) Stepping into the breach is City University of New York sociologist Sharon Zukin with the highly readable, well-researched Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture , now out in paperback. Zukin is the author of such acclaimed studies as Loft Living, Landscapes of Power

74. Dictionary Of Critical Sociology - A Apple, and temptation to knowledge A symbol of forbidden things; As such,it means that one is able to create culture by virtue of the fact that one is http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rmazur/dictionary/a.html

Dictionary of Critical Sociology A B C D ... Z A AARP: The American Association of Retired Persons. This organization was founded to help solve the problems of the elderly who were often discarded after a life-time of productive or reproductive labor. It is concerned with social security, medical care, housing, nutrition and well being of elderly people. It is now the biggest union in the USA with over 40 million members. Of late, it has expanded its concerns to include children and women's needs. In so far as it calls for government support of social justice programs, it has become a serious problem for Republicans. Abortion: The process by which a pregnancy is terminated, usually within three months of conception. This activity has aroused great debate and much direct social action to prevent it. Many people argue that every life is sacred and that to abort a fetus is the same as murder. Many people believe that such activity is a matter of private concern to be decided in terms of the circumstances in which the mother and/or the father find themselves. Some countries provide abortion on demand at very low fees; other countries forbid it entirely. Some see abortion as a major device for birth control while others see it as a way to avoid collective care for unborn children. See birth control/'over' population for more things to consider. Abuse, Child: The use of force against a child to force it to obey and comply to rules or orders of adults. Often a polite synonym for child rape. It can include psychological acts which distress a child greatly.

75. A Routledge Title: Social Movement Studies: Journal Of Social, Cultural And Poli George McKay, Department of cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire,UK Ann Mische, Deptartment of sociology, Rutgers University, USA http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14742837.asp

Contact Us Members of the Group All Products Books Journal Article eBooks Alphabetical Listing Journals by Subject New Journals Advertising ... eBooks Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest Nick Crossley , Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK Editors: Tim Jordan , Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, UK George McKay Ann Mische , Deptartment of Sociology, Rutgers University, USA Editorial Information Publication Details: Volume 4, 2005, 3 issues per year ISSN Print 1474-2837 ISSN Online 1474-2829 2005 Subscription Rates Subscribe Online! Institutional: US$381/£231 Individual: US$99/£60 of CrossRef SARA (Free contents alerting service) Online Sample Copy Visit the Sociology Arena! Instructions for Authors Table of Contents (Available Online from Volume 1) SMS Opening Statement - written by the editors for the first edition of the journal, April 2002. Aims and Scope: Social Movement Studies is an international and inter-disciplinary journal providing a forum for academic debate and analysis of extra-parliamentary political, cultural and social movements throughout the world. Social Movement Studies has a broad, inter-disciplinary approach designed to accommodate papers engaging with any theoretical school and which study the origins, development, organisation, values, context and impact of historical and contemporary movements active in all parts of the world. We understand our inter-disciplinary approach to include both contributions that engage with particular schools of thought relevant to social movements and popular protest and contributions that extend across disciplinary boundaries. Social Movement Studies aims to publish soundly researched analyses and to re-establish writing as intervention. From this broad and inclusive perspective we are interested in contributions dealing with social movements, popular protests and networks that support protest. This includes contributions dealing with but not restricted to:

76. Powell's Books - The Electric Meme: A New Theory Of How We Think By Robert Aunge How do animals learn things? How does human culture evolve? We do all sortsof cultural things for reasons that don t seem to have anything to do with http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=Hardcover:Sale:0743201507:9.98

77. School Of Social Sciences, Media And Cultural Studies School of Social Sciences, Media and cultural Studies. sociology at UEL Two sociology at UEL makes sense of these complexities by placing the http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/sociology/

Jump to site navigation menus School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies BA (Hons) Sociology Sociology at UEL The Degree Programme FAQs Sociology at UEL The Sociology staff and students welcome you to our web site. We are known for our innovative curriculum , which focuses on multiculturalism, inequalities and globalisation, a committed and experienced staff team, and for providing first class student support. A committed and experienced staff team The Staff in the Sociology Subject Area are experienced teachers and active researchers. Their work is published in a variety of academic journals, books and periodicals. Staff pride themselves on tracking current events and teaching programmes that reflect their research interests, meet student needs, and engage students with contemporary and classic sociology. We enjoy working in an intellectually exciting environment. In which staff debate their work with students and each other. We scored 4 out of a possible 5 in the last Research Assessment Exercise. Excellent Student Support Please browse our web site to find out lots of interesting and useful information, answering your

78. The Sociology Video Project sociology subjects Autobiographical methods Diasporas immigration It is understandable that due to cultural pressures they cannot reveal certain http://www.arts.yorku.ca/soci/video/videos/memom.html

The Sociology Video Project Find a video: by topic by title only the best only Canadian ... for hearing impaired viewers Rating: 2.3 out of 4 Reference: Director, Mina Shum. Toronto: Mongrel Media, 1993. 20 minutes Campus use only - sales agreement Call number: video 3555 Abstract: The film centres around the women in the Shum family - So Yee Shum and her two daughters, Mina and Mona. Mina Shum rolls the camera, while she and her mother sister talk about the things they can't tell Dad. In order to survive, the women construct a mythology about themselves that satisfies the cultural patriarchal expectations without compromising their own beliefs and desires. Library of Congress subjects: Chinese-Canadian womenSocial conditions Chinese CanadiansFamily relationships Subjects Sociology subjects: Autobiographical methods Identity Reviews and Numerical Ratings About the project Book a video for class Enter the Library Catalogue Send us feedback ... Back to main

79. Current Courses We will discuss how cultural factors work to shape the way media products In general, the sociology of religion studies the interaction between religion http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/sociology/currentcourses.html

Summer , 2005- Course Descriptions Department of Sociology University of Alabama in Huntsville SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology Several sections of this course are taught every semester by Professors Berbrier, Colclough, Finley, and Johnston. This course is designed as an overall introduction to the field of sociology. Courses generally begin with an introduction to the goals of sociological research, the methods used by sociologists, and some of the basic concepts of what “society” and “culture” are. These courses will include study of the major social processes — socialization, deviation, stratification, power, and social change — and how they develop in the context of major social institutions — gender, race, the family, the economy, the educational system, the political system, and many more. For example, in this course you might look at how race is related to the educational system in the United States, at how owners of businesses relate to their employees, or at who does the housework in families where both the husband and wife work full-time. A main goal of this course is to develop a “theoretical perspective” on these kinds of things; in other words, sociologists are not just interested in “the educational system” or “gender relations”, but in understanding

80. Sociology Links Links at Suite101 relating to sociology dewey decimal N/A. Criminology,Social Theory, Race, Culture and Gender. Each subject has a large collection http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/sociology

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